Natalia Dumitresco, L.A. Freeways 6, 1973, oil on canvas, cm. 50 x 61; signed, dated and titled on the verse.

Provenance: Paris, private collection.

Exhibition: "I labirinti urbani di Natalia Dumitresco e l’Ecole de Paris negli anni ’60-70" Bergamo, Galleria Michelangelo, 9 dicembre 2020 - 30 gennaio 2021

Natalia Dumitresco was a French-Romanian abstract painter associated with the Réalités Nouvelles salon of Paris after the Second World War, a movement influenced by the art of Wassily Kandinsky and Alberto Magnelli. Other abstract expressionist painters associated with the Réalités Nouvelles include Serge and Alexandre Istrati whom Dumitresco later married.

Dumitresco’s style of painting followed the movement of the Post-War trends that evolved in the School of Paris circle. After a number of years working in black and white, she tackled the problem of colours, showing originality and a great freshness of colours in her compositions.